This week, Vince Gilligan talks Gus’s death in The Hollywood Reporter‘s showrunners roundtable and Aaron Paul pays a visit to Conan O’Brien. Plus, Bryan Cranston talks about directing with Variety. Read on for more:

• The Hollywood Reporter speaks to Giancarlo Esposito about playing Gus, “whom Esposito embodied as convincingly as his own skin.” (No Link.) The Hollywood Reporter also considers Gus’s death to be one of TV’s most shocking, while the Los Angeles Times calls Gus a character “we hate to love.” (No Link.)

• The Los Angeles Times suggests a summer vacation to Albuquerque with a stop at Los Pollos Hermanos, where “owner Gus Fring is often on hand to deliver polite, efficient service, though for some reason we haven’t seen him much lately.” (No Link.)